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Good One

Late Night Writers Panel (LA)

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Jesse once again dives into the world of Late Night television, hosting another panel of writers at NeueHouse in Los Angeles. While the writers answer Jesse's questions about their starts in Late Night and their daily routines, a good chunk of the conversation involves the guests grilling one another on how their shows function, comparing their processes for pitching, writing and producing. Jesse asks the writers how they maintain their individual voices when writing for their respective hosts, what it's like to write in the current political climate, and for advice for aspiring writers. Also included: Jesse once again needs to know what Late Night writers eat for lunch. This panel includes:Jessie Gaskell (Conan)Matt Gunn (Real Time with Bill Maher)Jocelyn Richard (I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman)Danny Ricker (Jimmy Kimmel Live!)Jenny Yang (Busy Tonight with Busy Phillipps) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a HeadGum podcast. Hello and

0:15.0

I'm a good one. A podcast about jokes.

0:18.0

Fulcher's Podcasts about well jokes and those who write them.

0:22.0

I'm your host Jesse David Fox. Well, jokes, and those who write them.

0:22.5

I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.

0:24.6

Hi.

0:25.8

A few episodes ago, we are the audio of a panel I moderated

0:29.6

with writers who work for all the late night shows

0:31.6

that filmed in New York.

0:33.0

And it was fun, funny, and informative, so I thought, let's try it again.

0:37.0

This time with the writers for the shows that shoot in LA.

0:39.6

So we did exactly that.

0:41.0

At the end of July at Neue House, we summoned five writers,

0:44.0

Jesse Gascal of Conan, Danny Riker of Jimmy Kimmel Live,

0:47.0

Matt Gunn of Real Time with Bill Maher,

0:49.0

and Bill Maherson, Jocelyn Richard of I Love New America with Sarah Silverman,

0:51.0

and Jenny Yang of busy tonight.

0:53.8

It should be noted that those last two shows had already been canceled by the time with the

0:57.3

panel.

0:58.3

If you listen to the first panel, you'll notice pretty quickly with this one that it is different.

1:03.5

For the New York panel I intentionally focused on newish writers

1:07.6

opposed to producers. The LA panel included Jesse who has been at Kona for five years, Matt who has been at real time for 13, and Danny who is the co-head writer at Kimmel.

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